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• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  Ah, how I've missed blogging. I fell off of blogging in the last two ... took a short stories class in junior year. A lot of the time I used to ... over time, and it was the same with my friends. Some of us grew closer

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  Kuwait, is there any possibility of receiving the Admissions decision ... long time. I cant exactly remember the number of hours as the'd go in ... of my work there in the form of a letter of reference or is my noting

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  horizon, but the past few days have been when a lot of project classes begin ... , have no time limit.  They can quickly fling a black hole in the middle of ... hemiplegic patient in a few daily tasks, with the end goal of performing in a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  !). It was literally lifechanging. It was my first time out of the country ... blog detailing some of them, to give people a sense of all the amazing ... is probably the biggest/most popular of the international IAP programs

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  musical chairs against a group of about 40 people (the majority of whom have their PhD). Yesterday I apprehensively put the equivalent of almost $450 ... of derpy moments outside of my job that makes the experience as fun as

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  and left for the States at the ripe young age of 1. From there I enjoyed ... The Wizards of Oz(aka my parent's old friends) had a huge impact on ... 11 years in the beautiful town of Olathe. Now before you say anything

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... than watching 1/4th of a movie, I started thinking as I looked out the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

   hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure ... – to this day I don't remember who – pounding on the door of my host ... leapt out of bed and answered the door. Figure out the damage. On the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  's a feeling of too much and not enough going on. During the days where I ... of it and the power rests in my hands. On days where I had my 10am 8 ... half of IAP, going to the gym consistently and eating food I got off of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  celebrate being two years into their undergraduate degree. The Class of 2022 ... my blog where I left off — the version of me typing up this blog post is so different from the version of me that last posted back in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  lin-manuel miranda scares me my final paper for an MIT class about musicals!

  

  (allegedly) engaged in the blasphemous act of… Google Doc roleplaying… Anyways ... registered immediately.  We spent the semester learning about the history of the American musical, starting with the complex histories of minstrelsy

  • by Allison E. '27
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  the range of opportunities MIT offers. the upperclassmen on my floor, in ... as if i was abruptly thrust into the world of icebreakers! and New ... have fallen in love with the strong sense of community i’ve experienced

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  for its front desk, it was only one of the packages I had ordered, and ... the beginning of December to the end of IAP, and then maybe we could pod ... probably make room in his group to staple with all three of us. The other two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to UROP because you basically ARE einstein

  

  : this is not regular and I offered to be there the whole time, it was not ... advice column on the student side of finding and participating in a UROP ... ']something along the lines of:[/annotation] “Hey [Name]! I’m a [year] studying [blank

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 26, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  are a handful of graduate students, and I’m the token undergraduate ... communication talents with him to the policy world of Washington D.C. He communicates in two directions: he advocates on behalf of the astronomy community

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  of a photo person, but I took this photo at the Pittsburgh airport because I thought the elevator was cool. You can wave instead of pressing a ... were in the parking lot, neither of them could get any data on their

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  every flavour of Oreo offered in the northeast US, as there are many more ... States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of ... , here in my Notes app on the side of the highway. Well, so be it; I will

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... internet, most of the links were broken and the info outdated. This is my ... 's definitely in the minority of computing choices. What you'll notice about MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  'm exploring the role of a bacterial communication system called quorum sensing ... according to the concentration of those molecules. Right now, I'm trying to ... , not sure tho :( It's not an issue with the size of my tree -- I've only

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  because on the rare occasions I visit it, so much of what's on it makes me angry or sad. A bunch of the parents were very skeptical that you don ... you shouldn't feel compelled. Some of the parents in the thread said

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005